My files mostly reside in Veracrypt containers, in encrypted zipx files. These in turn contain individual encrypted files. All are encrypted with keyfiles of considerable length. I also have the keyfiles encrypted with a shorter and easily-remembered password, and they also have an extension other than.txt.

I think my best plan is going to be to mount containers then decrypt/extract/decrypt under the 1.7 version of Axcrypt, using the keyfiles. I then need to install 2.?, and re-encrypt the files and zipx. This will take some time, but is the easier way of handling the numbers involved.

Do I need to uninstall 1.7, or can I just install 2 over the top of it? I guess that I’d have to restart at least Windows Explorer to get the shells to work properly, or even reboot.